A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You

Reshaping the Industry

Three actions are necessary to build a thriving, profitable and durable construction industry:

  • Acceptance.  Recognize current situations and challenges and accept they are real.
  • Leadership.  Embrace core values and principles as innovators and leaders.
  • Solutions.  Collaborate among owners, contractors and workforce for solutions.
What challenges is the construction industry facing?  What principles, like sustainable value and social responsibility, should industry leaders embrace?  Where will the solutions come from?
Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, has arrived. Whether you’ve been dreading the inception or had embraced it from the start, AI is here to stay. However, AI can make...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.2% in July, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by...
Immigration enforcement actions have directly or indirectly affected 28% of construction firms responding to the 2025 AGC of America-NCCER Workforce Survey, which AGC posted...
Seasonally adjusted construction employment fell from June to July in 22 states, rose in 22 states, and was flat in six states and the District of Columbia, according to AGC’s...
Construction input prices increased 0.4% in July compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’...
At Construction Career Collaborative (C3), we’re not just building projects. We’re building people. One of the most valuable (and often underutilized) resources we offer to our...
Input prices for new nonresidential construction rose 0.2% in July, not seasonally adjusted, and 2.6% year-over-year (y/y), according to producer price index (PPI) data the Bureau...
Numerous tariffs affecting construction inputs took effect this week. On Thursday, a 50% tariff took effect for copper products such as wire and pipe, but not unprocessed copper....
TEMPE, Ariz. (Aug 5, 2025) - The Arizona Builders Alliance (ABA), a leading trade association for contractors in Arizona, successfully hosted its annual Backpack Drive...